Kane County Opinion
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Cold War vets deserve recognitionOct 01, 2016 1:00 am - The 25th anniversary of the official end of the Cold War is coming up in a short three months, and still we Cold War veterans are given the "cold shoulder" for long over...
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Huntley governance a refreshing changeSep 30, 2016 1:00 am - The Village of Huntley's elected officials and professional management team oversee and plan community affairs. They do a great job of governing and managing. That team...
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Campaigns need more focus on abortionSep 29, 2016 1:00 am - During the first presidential debate, the topic of abortion did not come up. Neither candidate was asked about taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood. I was thinking ab...
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Nothing new revealed in first debateSep 29, 2016 1:00 am - The first 2016 Presidential Debates set a world's record for the most people watching (84 million), all wasting the same 90 minutes of their lives. I learned nothing n...
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Distinct differences were on displaySep 29, 2016 1:00 am - These two candidates could not be more different. Hillary is a person who has spent her career in the legal and political arena. Trump has spent his career in real est...
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Family grateful for a second chanceSep 28, 2016 12:01 am - Family grateful for a second chance My name is Lue Hagerty. On Sept. 19, my husband Dane went missing. The police conducted a massive search for him. Based on the e...
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A poor way to treat mental illnessSep 26, 2016 1:00 am - Kane County treats those with mental illness in a costly and ineffective way: it houses them in jail. In fact, more than 20 percent of the jail's population has some for...
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Hillary has her own list of 'deplorables'Sep 24, 2016 1:00 am - Hillary Clinton has decided to take an adjective, "deplorable", and twist it into a noun, "deplorables", thus creating a new self-serving word. She did this so she could...
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Throw out lawmakers who won't balance budgetSep 24, 2016 1:00 am - The elections in November are not far away. It is time for the voters to throw out the Illinois state legislators that voted for a multi-billion-dollar unbalanced budget...
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Imagine gun owners defending religious rightsSep 24, 2016 1:00 am - When the actions of a few are reason enough to eliminate a single right of freedom, it logically follows that the actions of a few could someday be reason enough to elim...